Principal Building Quality Officer

Buildings and Contracts

Position No:

Salary/Level: Level 7, $139,860 - $149,485 pa, PSCSAA 2024

• 1x Full-Time or Part-Time, Permanent position available

Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.

The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.

We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.

Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.

We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.

We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA on If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Alex Raynes-Goldie on or via email at You can also reach us through the National Relay Service.

When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:

• flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.
• professional development, training, and on-the-job learningto advance your career.
• generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year. Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• modern workspaces, where you choose your workspace that assists you to do your best work.
• access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup for ad hoc flexible work.
• corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
• Opportunity to support our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role:

Provides technical leadership to in-house teams, private sector professionals and external client agencies on design, building quality, standards, tender documentation and evaluation of State Government's non-residential building projects.

Assists project teams to plan, deliver and maintain appropriate quality non-residential Government buildings through the provision of technical advice, building design and documentation reviews, technical guidelines and briefs, and post occupancy evaluations.

About You:

In this role, you will work collaboratively to support the delivery of quality built outcomes for the WA community. Our ideal candidate is technically minded and detail oriented, with architectural design experience across a broad range of non-residential Government buildings. A strong background in design reviews is essential, as the role involves managing and coordinating review processes as well as conducting post-occupancy evaluations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build strong, professional relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

This position operates in the context of Leading Others. This means that you will motivate and enable others to deliver high quality work. You will balance time between doing the work and coaching, guiding and developing others. This requires a significant shift in thinking from 'doing' to supporting others to 'do good work'; and consideration of present and future needs when allocating time to the team and projects you lead. You will articulate how work is to be done, providing clear direction and feedback.

How to Apply:

If you think you have what it takes to be a part of our dynamic and forward-thinking team, please click the "APPLY FOR THIS JOB" button and you will be redirected to WA Government Jobs and follow the advertising instructions. If not directed straight to the position, please key the position number into the web search box.

Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as we won't accept late and incomplete applications.

Further Job-Related Information:

For further information about the position please contact Alex Raynes-Goldie on not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).

Currently there is one (1) permanent full-time or part-time position available for filling. Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twenty-four (24) months on a full-time, part-time, permanent or fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency.

Closing Date: Monday, 22 September 2025 at 4:00pm (AWST)